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[G1 Apps and Games] smurf:
there are less weather icons in the internet than i thought, so i made another tango set...

@koxx

feel free to load it up if you like...
[G1 Apps and Games] koxx:
Thank you very much !

Skin uploaded to server :)
[G1 Apps and Games] smurf:
i made another one from the gnome weather icon set found here:

http://darkobra.deviantart.com/art/GNOME-Weather-Icons-125584709
[G1 Apps and Games] koxx:
Thank you !

I'll upload it next week-end (I am currently far from my PC)
[G1 Apps and Games] koxx:
uploaded !!!
[G1 Apps and Games] polygonal:
Any progress on the things on the todo list? More specifically,

The google weather is not as acurrate as it could be and a weather widget is useless if the weather info is not right ;)
[G1 Apps and Games] koxx:
no. Nothing.

Weather underground is already included, but I can't activate it since Weather underground doesn't answer my mails.

And I stell have a lot to do with other widgets.

May be next week I'll have more time for this one ...
[G1 Apps and Games] axlastro:
Automatic wallpaper change

Hey Koxx, what happened to my idea to make the app change the wapplapers according to the weather conditions. I think there were some people who voted for that too. :)
[G1 Apps and Games] fred77fr:
Bonjour

Deux questions:

- J'ai acheté Weather Forcast avec un compte gmail que je n'utilise plus, j'ai donc sur mon téléphone entré mon nouveau compte gmail.

Y a t'il un moyen de récupérer l'application payée ?

- Est-il possible de mettre la date au format francais avec "Weather forecast + calendar (4x3)" (mJour date mois" au lieu de "jour, mois date")

Merci beaucoup.
[G1 Apps and Games] koxx:
English forum, english answer.

For google account switch. I don't know, you have to ask to google.

For day strings, it's already listed on the first page :

+ CAL : improve days strings for different countries

So, yes, when I'll have time, I'll add it ;)
[G1 Apps and Games] fred77fr:
Ok sorry for french, i don't speak english really...

Thanks
[G1 Apps and Games] koxx:
pas de soucis ;)

tu as compris ma reponse ?
[G1 Apps and Games] fred77fr:
yes, google traduction is my friend :D

Merci
[G1 Apps and Games] sputnik99:
Me!! was that your idea? Yes please, so we could have a wallpaer for every weather... !!!
[G1 Apps and Games] RSchmauk:
Since I updated the ROM to the latest Cyanogen's (4.1999), I cannot change the skins of Weather Forecast. It doesn't download the list of skins, and it can't be that it's blocked, because I do have the option of geolocation with autorefresh.

Any help?

Thanks!
[G1 Apps and Games] koxx:
Sure,

I can help, but i need you to send the logcat after the failure.

Use 'log collector' to do it.

Thanks,

Francois
[G1 Apps and Games] koxx:
Do you have an sdcard ?
[G1 Apps and Games] RSchmauk:
Yes, with a FAT32 and a EXT3 partition.

EDIT: I don't know how, but now it's working... Thanks.
[G1 Apps and Games] athurdent:
I vote to remove the text shadow of this widget now, too. I really liked the shadow in your widgets, but now this one is the only one with shadows and looks odd next to your other widgets :(
[G1 Apps and Games] koxx:
;)

here is a quick beta without shadow :p

http://koxx3.free.fr/widgets_apps/SkyInternationalKoxx.v2-243b1.apk
[G1 Apps and Games] athurdent:
Thank you! :D
[G1 Apps and Games] FANdroid:
Since upgrading to the latest version that is on the market, i have not been able to get the widget working. It just says forecast error, check location or internet connection.... i've tried rebooting as well as killing the forecast process to try and saee if that would help... but it didnt.
[G1 Apps and Games] koxx:
Can you send me your logcat (email at dirst page) after insertion failure ?
[G1 Apps and Games] FANdroid:
It started working again. :o Maybe my Internet service was messed up for the last few days.
[G1 Apps and Games] koxx:
That was exactly what I was thinking. ;)
[G1 Apps and Games] trefiate:
Widget don't work

I've bought today the widget on android market donating trough my credit card.

the widget has been downloaded and installed, but when I tap on the widget icon I see this message:

Title: Weather forecast widget donate

Thanks for donating. It removes all current widgets limitation.

To unlock widgets, just reconfigure your widgets, you will have access to all features.

For any comments, bugs or ideas, please comment here (link to forum)

Francois DESLANDES

What can I do?

Problem solved, I had not downloaded the real widget, but only made donation.
[G1 Apps and Games] koxx:
Did you read the unlocker market description ?

http://www.cyrket.com/package/org.koxx.forecast_weather_unlocker

I just copy the important part here :

WARNING : YOU HAVE TO KEEP THE FREE APPLICATION INSTALLED. This is just a 'key'.
[G1 Apps and Games] fred77fr:
Good evening

forgiveness for English I used the google translator.

There is obviously a bug in the 4x3 + calendar widget, the next day appears twice in the widget (see screenshot)

Is this an incorrect setting?

Thank you
[G1 Apps and Games] koxx:
problem due to summer/winter time change.

Everything should be fine tomorrow ;)
[G1 Apps and Games] fred77fr:
A ok, I also told myself that I had never noticed this problem before.

Thank you very much.
[G1 Apps and Games] nexus@xda:
I hope you don't forget this one while working on pure messenger widget. :D

Can't wait for your "open cal app" feature.
[G1 Apps and Games] koxx:
Pfff ... I am a little tired to work on this one.

Especially when I see stupid comments from market such as :

- "I got an update problem. Won't refresh every hour like it should." (I discussed with the guy by mail : he use TaskKiller to kill all services ... I tell him he should not but he doesn't change his comment)

- "Free apparently sucks, try weather bug way way better"

- "No weather related widgets found after install. Running Akirah 3.1" ...

Free version seems to catch stupid guys ... :(
[G1 Apps and Games] nexus@xda:
Just ignore these ignorants and count on the guys who bought the donate version and invest time here. ;)
[G1 Apps and Games] kroetenlecker:
Hi koxx!

First of all, thank you for adding "DayString, Day. MonthString" at 'Select date format' in the Pure Calendar Widget! It looks great and now i am very satisfied with this widget...

But maybe you can imagine what i like to have in the Forecast Widget?

Right! The "DayString, Day. MonthString" for the date!

And there are two more things i wish to see in the widget on my homescreen:

- to show the event end time

and (to look like the 'Pure Calendar Widget')

- the days in 'bold' and the events in 'narrow'

I use the 4x4 calendar widget for all of my 7 different calendars (to have the best overview) and the 4x2 forecast widget to see only my own events for the next 2 or 3 days incl. the weather icon on the left side. So i want that both widget look the same (i'm a little bit fussy...)

I hope you understand my request and maybe you can implement some (or all) suggestions?

Many thanks in advance,

kroetenlecker
[G1 Apps and Games] nexus@xda:
Hi koxx,

I hope you're meanwhile more motivated to work on this app. :)
[G1 Apps and Games] smurf:
hi koxxx, i do have a problem with the weather widget. I rebooted my phone and the widget says "problem loading widget". I had this a couple of times before and just deleted the widget and put a new one on the home screen. But now suddenly i cant choose weather widget from widget menu. Its gone. I the tried to deinstall weather widget and unlock. They are both greyed out, i cannont remove them... any suggestions?

edit: ok, i found out that it is displayed in the market but its actually not installed (checked with astro and estrong)?! How can this happen?
[G1 Apps and Games] koxx:
no idea :(

which ROM do you use ?
[G1 Apps and Games] smurf:
request

it was the rom or apps2sd. flashed cyanogen for the first time and something went wrong. other apps had the same error after a while. i flashed again without apps2sd and now everything is okay. So it was not the fault of forecast widget.

i have a request to make regarding the display of the weather calendar. would it be possible to make the 4x2 and/or 4x4 look this way with a transparent background?
[G1 Apps and Games] koxx:
Everything is possible.... but I don't have time for this :(
[G1 Apps and Games] MikLSP:
This is excellent and glad to see people expanding apps beyond the US, thanks :)
[G1 Apps and Games] koxx:
update published 2.4.4:

244 : add Noaa current weather informations

243 : fix layouts for Moto Droid + improve search by city name for Archos devices + invert font style for calendars + bug fix for calendar selection + bug fix with calendar such as fbcal + fix reboot skin bug with Android 1.6 & 2.0
[G1 Apps and Games] swears11:
Is anyone having problems with this on the Hero?

I have the paid version, but when I restart the phone, or HTC Sense, the app is stuck on "loading data".

I tried this w/o HTC sense using the vanilla UI and it works just fine.

Any ideas?
[G1 Apps and Games] spacezorro:
Increasing Clouds

I get a "?" when the weather is "Increasing Clouds"
[G1 Apps and Games] Janis:
I get a ? when the weather says "cold"

I know the US isn't the only place that gets cold. I used to use WeatherPanel for WinMo, and I know HTC had put out icons for cold, animated and not. Is there a reason some of these arent there?
[G1 Apps and Games] koxx:
I need you to udpate to the last version, and send me a logcat to see the exact icon string.

Which provider are you using ? Google ? Noaa ?
[G1 Apps and Games] Janis:
? = cold Log and screeny

HTH

Thanks for the attention!

I'm using NOAA. Google, for the last two times NOAA has shown cold, has "only" shown partly cloudy. It's accurate, but I like how NOAA decides the temp is of more interest than the cloud cover when it gets to double digits below zero. It does it for hot, too, when it gets over 95. (Yup, we get a 110 degree spread relaibly every year.)

Edit: I've been lazy and have just looked for updates on Market, SlideMe, aTrackDog, but I didn't actually check the version number. Is it somewhere in the app?
[G1 Apps and Games] koxx:
Thank you very much !

What kind of icon could I put for 'cold' ? a sun (in winter, it generally means clear but low temp, no) ?
[G1 Apps and Games] koxx:
bug fixed published :

- hot / cold icons for Noaa ('clear' icon used)

- partly_sunny for Google at night ('few_clouds_night' used)
[G1 Apps and Games] chriskern97:
Weather Icons

I currently use the 4x4 widget. Is there any way to get weather forecast icons for ALL days of the forecast? Right now, the last 2 or 3 days do not have an icon. Droid, 2.0.1
[G1 Apps and Games] koxx:
No, Google provide only a 4 day forecast (including current day).
[G1 Apps and Games] smurf:
it says in the market place description: "doesnt work well in germany". Just wanted to say it works perfectly in northern germany. I have no weather station at home, so i cant tell what temperature is actually outside but almost all online weather services have the same temperatures like google weather. Anyways, i wonder how the can have diffrent temperatures since it seems that they are all using data from the same stations...
[G1 Apps and Games] koxx:
I had a looooooot of German users reporting problems. So ... to avoid complains I prefer to say that it doesn't works. That's better than bad ratings.

I think it's a strange geocoder problem.

Either location reported by GSM network is wrong, either Google geocoder return invalid city/position.
[G1 Apps and Games] brotbuexe:
Works also fine for me in east germany. The data is correct, the location is also correctly auto selected.

One request, can you add a feature to open a custom url when click in the forecast window instead of opening weatherunderground. It does not need to insert location/city as parameter in the url, but this would be a nice addition.
[G1 Apps and Games] ron_e:
I just downloaded the free version and it works fine on my behold 2. I then bought the registration key and tried to load a calendar version, it will not go beyond "loading data". If I delete the widget and go back to forecast only it loads fine.

I even tried the calendar version by selecting no calenders, 1 calender and all 5 of my calendars and they all acted the same way. Does not go beyond loading data.

I tried restarting the phone and it made no difference.

Any ideas on how to fix this?
[G1 Apps and Games] koxx:
I need you to send me a logcat after the widget insertion to understand the problem.

To send it, everything is explained here :

http://koxx3.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/how-to-help-me-to-debug-an-application/
[G1 Apps and Games] ron_e:
thanks

It has been sent.
[G1 Apps and Games] Janis:
Cold, again

I just thought I'd plug for a "cold" icon, or at least the possiblility of one. Wednesday was in the 20s, so on a day that's in the 20s, it's very possible to have this in the forecast:

TEMPS WILL DROP WELL BELOW ZERO TONIGHT.RANGING FROM 25 BELOW IN WEST CNTL MN TO 15 BELOW IN EAST CNTL MN & WEST CNTL WI. NW WINDS WILL BE RATHER NOTICEABLE.FROM 8 TO 15 MPH THIS EVENING.....

THE TEMP & WIND WILL COMBINE TO RESULT IN WIND CHILL VALUES FROM 25 TO 35 BELOW. IN THESE CONDITIONS.FROSTBITE CAN OCCUR IN TEN TO THIRTY MINUTES IF YOU ARE NOT PROPERLY PREPARED FOR THE COLD WEATHER.
​

We have to get stuff out of our storage units for this kind of cold (either because it will freeze too solid, or we need it to keep ourselves warm). Which means we really need to be flagged at least a day or two ahead of time. We get this kind of cold often during a given year, and then not at all the next year. Many people do get it yearly, but fairly unpredictably. Besides, it's more than some discomfort or a slow commute that could be at stake.

I'm not asking for special combinations of precipitation, specific wind speeds, or totally odd-ball stuff, but room (not an icon set requirement) for simple "hot" and "cold."

Puleeeeze?
[G1 Apps and Games] Janis:
While I'm at it, here's my log, just the Warnings and Errors

I set up the 1x1, then4x1 Weather Forecast widget, then the 2x2 Pure Calendar Widget
[G1 Apps and Games] Janis:
What I was hoping for was to create some icon sets that have a special cold icon and a special hot icon. If you have a condition statement like:

if a cold icon exists

use it

else

use sunny

I put a couple of new sets out on the icon set thread, and so far they work really well for me.

P.S. Sorry I watching th app closer than the thread. I promise next time I'll read before I post a response.....
[G1 Apps and Games] koxx:
I'll check what I can do, but it's not easy (for hot/cold), and I have higher priority tasks... :(
[G1 Apps and Games] ron_e:
Just wondering if there is any update on this? I sent the log file as requested. I still have not gotten it to work.

Thanks
[G1 Apps and Games] koxx:
No, it's not fixed yet. But I know how to fix it.
[G1 Apps and Games] ron_e:
Sounds good, thanks.
[G1 Apps and Games] ron_e:
I just installed it on my new N1 (arrived today) and the free widget works fine but I am not able to find the donate item to install again. Any ideas? This is my first time of moving to a new Android phone.
[G1 Apps and Games] Branwen:
If you go into the market, and click on the app, you can go to the bottom and show other apps by the same dev.

Otherwise, you might not have paid apps enabled in your area, in which case you will need market enabler.

Koxx, I had an idea this morning. Would it be possible to put this widget into the notification bar, so when we pull down we get the 4x1 4 day view?

This would be amazing!
[G1 Apps and Games] koxx:
All I can put in the notification bar is 1 small icon + text. I think the icon will be too small to see anything. :(
[G1 Apps and Games] ron_e:
Thanks, I had tried that yesterday with no luck. Today things are going much better. I am also seeing other apps that were not showing up for me before so I don't know what changed but something did.

PS. The Widget works great on my N1. I love the phone so far.
[G1 Apps and Games] koxx:
Lucky you are. You already have a N1 ... ;)
[G1 Apps and Games] koxx:
Can you test my 'Pure calendar' widget ?

Somebody report me it fails on Nexus One... I'd like to have a confirmation.
[G1 Apps and Games] DBeCe:
I would like to show you a new weather and calendar app from a new android phone. Maybe you can take some ideas.
[G1 Apps and Games] el_smurfo:
Sugggestions

Just bought your app and am really enjoying it. It enabled me to consolidate two apps into one and get them to fit on my main home screen. Some suggestions which would make it perfect for me:

1. Add a larger digital clock option to the top (digital clock widget in market). This could be an option to replace the day forecast which is already duplicated in the calendar entry.

...or...

2. Add an option to eliminate the large redundant forecast/current weather at the top to allow for more calendar entries.

3. A skin that extends all the way to the edge of the screen would make it more consistent when used with digital clock widget.

4. Perhaps add an option to rename the current date "TODAY" and tomorrow as "TOMORROW" such as the CalWidget.
[G1 Apps and Games] koxx:
1 - Tama chan is a french 'friend'... so, I'd like to avoid making a concurrent product of Beautiful widget.

2 - why not ...

3 - you know that you can do it yourslef ;)

4 - Already done in Pure calendar, I'll see if I have time to copy it to Weather forecast...
[G1 Apps and Games] el_smurfo:
1. Beautiful widgets is hardly competition for your application now as it is hardly beautiful at all anymore (I removed it to use your app). Adding a 4x1 sized clock above your weather+calendar widget in the same font as the calendar would look totally different. I will email a screen capture of what I was suggesting.
[G1 Apps and Games] kolyan:
For me Pure grid cal., Pure cal., and Weather work fine on Nexus.
[G1 Apps and Games] koxx:
Thanks for your tests !
[G1 Apps and Games] jomil:
Any chance of displaying the event end time as an option please? :)
[G1 Apps and Games] koxx:
Sorry but I stopped developpement on this product (moved to a next widget : Pure music widget).
[G1 Apps and Games] refthemc:
Ooooo.....
[G1 Apps and Games] el_smurfo:
So we should expect a similar level of dedication to the customers of this new app?
[G1 Apps and Games] sputnik99:
Hi Koxx,

do you remember some months ago I (and some others) were asking for a wallpaper that changes with the weather? You said, you didn't want it at the moment.

Here is a thread where people are looking for that http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=629109

here is another one http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=628588

and Beautiful Widgedts are working on this, too. Maybe you could change your mind?
[G1 Apps and Games] koxx:
as explained earlier :

Sorry but I stopped developpement on this product (moved to a next widget : Pure music widget).
[G1 Apps and Games] ron_e:
Does this mean you do not plan on updating this widget ever?

I was going to suggest using m.wund.com instead of www.weatherunderground.com when going to the forecast detail since this mobile device.
[G1 Apps and Games] kolyan:
Does not work on Nexus with latest CM ROM. (as well as Calendar Grid)

Calendar widget works fine....

PM'd
[G1 Apps and Games] nexus@xda:
Some feature requests:

text field which shows the temperature is too small if two digits are used

add "milk"-background

Regards,

Florian
[G1 Apps and Games] koxx:
Sorry but I really don't have time to work on this widget anymore.
[G1 Apps and Games] el_smurfo:
Will you be issuing refunds when OTA ROM updates, etc break your widget?
[G1 Apps and Games] koxx:
I don't understand.

Do you think there is a life time warranty on apps provided on the market ?

If Google or handset makers breaks API, dev will not always be behind them to fix everything. If this is what you think, then forget it !

People have 24h to test the key, if they are not happy, they are refunded with natural market rules.

I hope I answer the question.

EDIT : For memory, this app have been supported during 10 months ... it's a big time for a market app.
[G1 Apps and Games] el_smurfo:
The problem with just dropping support is that it sometimes takes longer than 24 hours to find a bug. Imagine if you bought a car and had to toss it when the windshield wiper broke.

As an example, just this morning, I realized that the hero skins I bought the widget specifically to use do not seem to support "windy" forecasts. I now have two fat ? on the screen for Thursday and Friday. I have tried reloading different skins but none of the themes seem to work anymore with a NOAA "Windy" forecast. Google works, but my point remains...devs need to support apps when something the app depends on changes causing the app to break for an end user.
[G1 Apps and Games] 1024k:
Hey Koxx, is there any chance to get updates at first connection after a failed scheduled update?
[G1 Apps and Games] sputnik99:
koxx is right. The support during the past year was fabulous and the product is working flawless, so no need for updates for the final release.

Sent from my Nexus One using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
[G1 Apps and Games] Papazian25:
Edit: problem solved
[G1 Apps and Games] koxx:
how did you solve your location problem ?

this is the reason why I stopeed the dev of this widget: the Google weather API is higtly unstable...
[G1 Apps and Games] Papazian25:
For some reason it had changed forecast provider to google 1 instead of google 2 without me noticing. So I just changed it back to Google 2 and now it works fine.

I do have another question though. When I click on the current days forecast to get to wunderground.com the "current weather" icon and description doesn't match the one the widget is presenting. (Wunderground.com says it's a bit cloudy while widget says clear) It doens't change even when I manually update. It's not a big problem, just wondering why.
[G1 Apps and Games] koxx:
2 differents sources = 2 differents informations (Google vs wund)
[G1 Apps and Games] 1024k:
I can't get the widget loading after installed adfree:

http://www.cyrket.com/p/android/com.bigtincan.android.adfree/

3d on xda:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=509997

do someone get the same error?

which are full http addresses of google weather servers?

Thanks
[G1 Apps and Games] koxx:
google weather API :

http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=....

google weather servers seems down for some users... as usual :(
[G1 Apps and Games] 1024k:
As koxx wrote was down google servers now the widget works.

No issues are due from adfree.

Thanks
[G1 Apps and Games] nico1375:
François, thank you, I just bought the calendar and weather widgets.

I'm impressed by the quality of your work.

By far the best widgets I've ever seen, congrats :)
[G1 Apps and Games] el_smurfo:
Why does this thing run in the background all the time, even when I don't have a widget on the screen? I check spare parts and it's always one of the highest battery users even though I don't it use the widget anymore. Paid, but installed now...
[G1 Apps and Games] koxx:
because there is a bug in Android which doesn't allow devs to count active widgets and decide of the service status regarding the widgets count.
[G1 Apps and Games] HFX9:
widget

i have one little question:

Is THIS your weather forecast widget or widget in the link is from someone else?
[G1 Apps and Games] koxx:
it's not mine
[G1 Apps and Games] el_smurfo:
Having real problems with this widget on CM5.0.8T4. The ROM does seem to have problems with some widgets, but this one is the worst...gets stuck "loading data" probably about 75% of the time on boot or reinstall widget.
[G1 Apps and Games] koxx:
pffff ... those ROMs starts to piss me off.

at least 5 emails per day with failing ROM.
[G1 Apps and Games] el_smurfo:
I can understand your frustration, but other widgets seem to work fine...This ain't an iPhone...you have to expect your products will work across multiple platforms and with experimental users.
[G1 Apps and Games] koxx:
Like most ROMs, it depends if they use data from sdcard or not.
[G1 Apps and Games] kolyan:
is there a way to get rid of "....donate" icon in drawer ?